Thursday, October 27, 2005

Borking and Miering

A contributor to The Reform Club, a right-leaning blog, wrote that to get "borked" was "to be unscrupulously torpedoed by an opponent," while to get "miered" was to be "unscrupulously torpedoed by an ally."

S.T. Karnick, co-editor of The Reform Club, elaborated.

"If you have a president who is willing to instigate a big controversy, the prospect of being `borked' will be the major possibility," he said. "But if you have a president who is always trying to get consensus, then it's much more likely that nominees will get `miered.'"

What a load. The proper definition of "Miered" would be "The slow death of an unqualified candidate".

I didn't agree with the cited definition of "miered" either, but that's one of the great things about Reform Club. Just like the original, we tolerate the other man's heresies, so long as he keeps passing the port.

The Reform Club, c. 1915

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